Can Samba co-operate?

[Christopher R. Hertel]

> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> That is exactly what i was looking for.

:)

> i understand that would it would difficult to re=write samba, and that
> it may impact performance in a bad way, but the user i'm looking to
> support wouldn't be running a performance critical server anyway.
> 
> Any chance of getting a look at the code? 

Yes, but you will be disappointed.  I've had little time and really have
not written much at all.  It's mostly ideas that I'm spouting at this
point.  I hate to admit it, but I prefer design to coding...  Ouch.

http://www.ubiqx.org/libcifs/

Chris -)-----

> Mike
> 
> Original message from: "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at nts.umn.edu>
> >
> >Samba takes full ownership of those ports.
> >
> >I've argued, from time to time, that it would be best to have a NBT
> daemon
> >to manage services on the three key ports.  I agree with the
> >counter-argument that Samba probably shouldn't be overhauled to work
> this
> >way.  On the other hand, I have started work on a code library that
> would 
> >allow exactly what I'm describing.
> >
> >My thinking is that there would be an 'nbtd' that would manage
> NetBIOS
> >nameing, NetBIOS datagrams, and NetBIOS sessions as described in
> >RFC1001/1002.  On the local host, I'd have Unix Domain Sockets (or
> other 
> >IPC--eg. ARexx on Amiga) allowing clients to connect to the NBT vLAN
> via 
> >the nbtd.  One such client would be an SMB daemon.
> >
> >At one end, the SMB daemon should be able to speak to the NBT daemon
> *or*
> >directly to the network via port 445.  At the other end, it would be
> >really nice to provide a local socket for named pipes, etc.  A system
> >administrator (someone with privilage, should be able to add services
> by 
> >"registering" them with the SMB daemon somehow.
> >
> >Just an idea at this point, but one advantage of the architecture is 
> >that it would certainly handle the stuff you're interested in doing.
> >
> >Chris -)-----
> 
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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services

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    them you will reach your destiny.  --Carl Schultz